The Texas Senate is due to try Paxton on the 20 articles of impeachment no later than August. He will be removed from office if found guilty.
Sen. Angela Paxton could either judge her own husband’s guilt or recuse herself, lowering the number of votes needed for conviction.
One national figure who has not weighed in — and who endorsed Paxton in last year’s primary — is former president Donald Trump.
The Senate has passed a bill to ban sexually explicit material in school libraries and hold book vendors accountable for selling them to schools.
Small business owners worry that legislation being promoted to help catch stolen jewelry will subject them to warrantless searches and onerous regulations.
Questions still surround the push for school choice, but the attorney general says that education savings accounts would not violate the law.
Paxton has filed almost a dozen lawsuits against the Biden administration on illegal immigration.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed at least nine separate lawsuits against the Biden administration over illegal immigration.
The Texas law prohibiting virtually all abortions unless the mother’s life is at stake takes effect Thursday.
Though elective abortion is already a crime in Texas, the Human Life Protection Act will make it a first-degree felony.
Both bans outlaw elective abortions from the point of conception. The laws do not apply to treatments for miscarriages or ectopic pregnancy.
If Roe v. Wade is reversed, then Texas will have two sets of laws banning abortion, each with a different penalty for violations.
